I need to be stopped

[Rajah]

Went by Lowe's again yesterday and came back with some more stuff.

First were some new plants to replace the kalanchoe on the front porch. I finally found out what those neat-looking things were, they're kalanchoe. And they only bloom once during the spring/summer. I'm very disappointed in myself for not taking pictures of them before they bloomed out.

So I got some ixora and a vinnia to replace them. The Kalanchoe are now on the back porch needing to be dead-headed, and the others have taken their place on the front. *These* bloom throughout the summer.

Then I also picked up a 1-gallon oleander because I love the oleanders.

Now, though, I have 5 1-gallon azaleas and 1 1-gallon oleander that I'm scratching my head over where to plant. LOL! Oops... And I still want a hibiscus and a cutting from my mom's Texas Vitex tree... And may have to save my mom's wisteria tree/vine because she doesn't like where it's planted (it keeps trying to climb the crepe mertle) and is talking about just having it cut down. So if I can figure out how to transplant a 7-foot wysteria tree, we may take that.

 

[amid chaos]

Oh Rajah...you have the bug!!!! LOL.. give in, dont try to resist, save your grocery money fo the garden center.

 

[dandave]

LOL! You're definitely addicted, Rajah! I am too. I've started making myself throw away all the flower selling magazines I get in the mail, and I try to walk straight to the fertilizer in the garden shop without looking at anything.
If the withdrawal gets really bad, I'll pick up a pack of seeds. I've got 3 packs on the kitchen counter right now!
(But you've <b>got</b> to get that wisteria! )

 

[gina2000]

Give up, Rajah! You will travel far and wide in search of new and exciting plants to nourish, plant, grow and kill. I add kill because that happens also, lol!

Just paste a sucker sign on your forehead. You're addicted.

And you love it!

 

[Maleficent2]

2 new charteuse coleus one "Wild Lime" and somehow I got home without the name of the other one but it is Charteuse and red

I love Charteuse and purle together and like unusual plants that no one else has when I see them I gotta come home with em....

 

[amid chaos]

Mal, I love coleus, and those are beauties.

 

[Rajah]

Mal, they look great!!!

No, really y'all. I *need* to be stopped.

I just came home with 2 bougainvillia (sp??) one I think in pink (it's not blooming yet, but that's its form and what it looks like it's going to go to) and one in a soft pink that turns salmon with age, then a hanging basket of mexican heather (which my mom says DON'T PLANT IN THE GROUND but leaving hanging will be fine -- it took over her yard at one point ). Then two small lantana.

Then spent an hour on the front porch trying to rearrange things so the front porch looked decent. I can *not* put anything else on the front porch.

But...hmm...maybe I could put a hook for a hanging basket.....

*thwap*

 

[Tulirose]

Don't look to us to stop ya. We love to hear these kinds of stories.... kindred spirit type of thing.... and plus it makes us feel sorta normal....

 

[hercamore]

Wow,

I would love to have a porch to decorate. Yes, you need a couple plant hooks to hang baskets from, LOL.

herc.